SENSOR UNIT FOR ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATION COMPRISING A NEURAL PROCESSOR

• US 20100100514A1
• Filed: 10/29/2008
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deutsch-Franzosisches Forschungsinstitut Saint Louis, General Vision Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Deutsch-Franzosisches Forschungsinstitut Saint Louis
• Inventors: Raymond, Pierre, Menendez, Anne, Paillet, Guy
• Application Number:
  US12/260,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100514A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24133 Distances to prototypes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms

Abstract

A sensor unit comprising a sensor, a neural processor and a communication device, wherein the sensor unit is adapted to perform pattern recognition by means of the neural processor and to transfer the result of the pattern recognition via the communication device.

Claims

1. A sensor unit comprising a sensor, a neural processor and a communication device, wherein the sensor unit is adapted to perform pattern recognition by means of the neural processor and to transfer the result of the pattern recognition via the communication device.

2. The sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising a localization device for determining the position of the sensor unit.

3. The sensor unit according to claim 1, wherein the sensor unit is adapted to transfer the result of the pattern recognition only if the pattern was recognized.

4. The sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising a device for detecting the orientation of the sensor unit.

5. The sensor unit according to claim 1, wherein the sensor unit comprises a housing which is shaped in the manner of a roly-poly.

6. The sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising at least one solar cell.

7. The sensor unit according to claim 1, wherein components of the sensor unit are arranged in three dimensions, for example on a plurality of levels.

8. The sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising a three dimensional wiring of at least some of the components of the sensor unit.

9. The sensor unit according to claim 1, wherein at least some components of the sensor unit are arranged in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped or of a cylinder.

10. The sensor unit according to claim 9, wherein at least some of the components of the sensor unit are connected with each other by means of a sidewall of the rectangular parallelepiped or of the cylinder.

11. The sensor unit according to claim 1, wherein at least some components of the sensor unit are connected with each other by means of the MID technology.

12. The sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor covers one zone of the sensor unit'"'"'s observation area which is divided into zones.

13. A sensor network comprising a plurality of sensor units according to claim 1.

14. The sensor network according to claim 13, wherein the sensor units are networked with each other in the form of a master/slave assembly.

15. A method for environment observation, comprising the steps of detecting the environment by means of a sensor, performing pattern recognition by means of a neural processor and transferring the result of the pattern recognition via a communication device.